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minus-squareSomething Burger 🍔linkfedilinkarrow-up29arrow-down6·30 days ago 15.7 billion miles (168 AU) Americans will convert their miles to every yee yee ass unit under the sun before using metric.
minus-squareEzTerry@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down1·30 days agoTo be fair AU means more to me than miles or km in this case… 168 times further from us than we are to the sun. But since you want metric ~25.1 terameters.
minus-squareThreeme2189@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down2·edit-229 days ago But since you want metric ~25.1 terameters. You think you’re being witty, but you’ve just unintentionally shown why the metric system is so good. 25.1 terameters => 25,100 gigameters => 25,100,000 kilometers. Easy as pie. Edit: Ahh crap, I forgot about megameters. It comes out to 25,100,000,000 km. Sorry for the metric ton of confusion.
minus-squareThebular@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·29 days agoYou’re missing a few zeroes there I think
minus-squareHadriscuslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·29 days agoYour little off-by-one-thousand mistake is evidence that meters are ill-fitted for astronomy. au, al and pc exist for a reason I checked and only au (astronomical unit) is listed in SI, while not being a SI unit per se
minus-squareThreeme2189@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·29 days agoNever said they were fitted, just that the conversion between units is (supposed to be) simple.
minus-squareHadriscuslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·29 days agoIt is but I would advise using scientific notation with exponent instead, it’s harder to make a mistake
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·29 days agoIdk what these imperialist donkeys are talking about. 1 terameter is 10^6 kilometers. You’re spot on.
minus-squareThreeme2189@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·29 days agoThanks for the support, but I was indeed mistaken.
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·29 days agoOhh, now I see it. The typo at the bottom. Missed that.
minus-squareThreeme2189@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·29 days agoHow could I forget about the megameters???
minus-squareSimulation6@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·29 days agoIs Pi in metrics is 1.0?
minus-squareWolf314159@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·30 days agoAt that scale meters and miles are pretty close with respect to orders of magnitude, which is why practically everyone talks about these scales in AUs regardless of what units they actually used to do the science.
minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·29 days agoThough AU is a pretty legitimate term if you don’t want to be going in Tera - Giga territory. I’d assume astronomers other than in the US also use it.
Americans will convert their miles to every yee yee ass unit under the sun before using metric.
To be fair AU means more to me than miles or km in this case… 168 times further from us than we are to the sun.
But since you want metric ~25.1 terameters.
You think you’re being witty, but you’ve just unintentionally shown why the metric system is so good.
25.1 terameters => 25,100 gigameters => 25,100,000 kilometers.
Easy as pie.
Edit: Ahh crap, I forgot about megameters. It comes out to 25,100,000,000 km. Sorry for the metric ton of confusion.
You’re missing a few zeroes there I think
Just a few 😉
Your little off-by-one-thousand mistake is evidence that meters are ill-fitted for astronomy. au, al and pc exist for a reason
I checked and only au (astronomical unit) is listed in SI, while not being a SI unit per se
Never said they were fitted, just that the conversion between units is (supposed to be) simple.
It is but I would advise using scientific notation with exponent instead, it’s harder to make a mistake
Idk what these imperialist donkeys are talking about. 1 terameter is 10^6 kilometers. You’re spot on.
Thanks for the support, but I was indeed mistaken.
Ohh, now I see it. The typo at the bottom. Missed that.
Psst. You forgot the megameters.
How could I forget about the megameters???
Is Pi in metrics is 1.0?
It’s quiche in metric.
At that scale meters and miles are pretty close with respect to orders of magnitude, which is why practically everyone talks about these scales in AUs regardless of what units they actually used to do the science.
Though AU is a pretty legitimate term if you don’t want to be going in Tera - Giga territory.
I’d assume astronomers other than in the US also use it.